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Latitude: 54.9146 / 54°54'52"N
Longitude: -4.8433 / 4°50'35"W
OS Eastings: 217849
OS Northings: 561468
OS Grid: NX178614
Mapcode National: GBR GHFQ.D7R
Mapcode Global: WH2S9.KQWR
Entry Name: Galdenoch,farmstead 500m SE of
Scheduled Date: 22 March 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5057
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Secular: farmstead
Location: New Luce
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
This small farmstead is situated in an improved field on the top of the slopes above the haugh of the Water of Luce. There are two rectangular buildings and a possible sub-rectangular enclosure, the E building (about 5m by 3m by 0.5m high) is best preserved and has been used as a clearnce cairn. Hay or sillage is grown to within a
metre or so of the buildings.
The area proposed for scheduling extends from the SW corner of the field 50m along the S dyke and 70m due N also 70m along the old W dyke and 90m roughly ENE: this will include the building and part of the bank of the enclosure and 25m NW-SE. The area is marked in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
This monument is of national importance as one of a group of pre-improvement farms which together contain the potential to enhance, through excavation and through comparative study, archaeological understanding of the land-use and management of the pre-improvement landscape.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 SE 66.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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